Despite growing insight into neuroscience and the physical limitations of our consciousness, we have the tendency to ascribe a limitlessness to our minds. We readily accept the existence of certain boundaries in the material world, like fences, social stations, rules, laws (of physics and of states), or physical characteristics (”You must be this tall to ride the roller-coaster”), but when it comes to the inner world — the mind, our memories, our imagination, our cognition, and our social skills — we have trouble conceiving of real mechanical limits. When a word eludes us, playing about

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